Tattoos and exorcism in China
The transformation of the body paint, scarification, or tattooing, is one of the earliest forms of artistic expression used by man. In China this primitive technique, used since prehistoric times, still exists today in some Chinese minorities. We have an example here with the annual ceremony of exorcism at Nianduhu. This village dance practice every year to wutu to ward off evil spirits. Getty Images.
Chinese Calligraphy
The art of relating well placed
Work Youri Messen
Corps letters
header letter
Work of bodyart by Silvia-Rugullis
Peking Opera
masks traditional Chinese operas are a sort of makeup of the actors, generally used for male roles jing and buffoons. Each character has its special make-up, which showed the typical features of his character.
Peking Opera
The makeup very artistic Peking Opera require great skill of execution. Just as in calligraphy and Chinese painting, the brush must be handled with force and precision, and application of color harmony must associate with the strong colors and light tints. Only thus can the makeup becomes alive and expressive, it attracts attention. Source Masks Peking Opera, "ed Dawn
Contemporary artists of bodyart in search of fantastic elements and color are a good source of inspiration with costumes and makeup Baroque Chinese theater. Artwork of Carolyne Roper.
Star of China
Paint the model in accordance with the canons Chinese
painting itself
Held Olympic
The paint on the body, for its playful and catchy, is now increasingly used in China in advertising or to promote events. This applies, for example the hostess for the promotion of the Olympic Games in Beijing at the 13th Tourism Fair in North China in Yanji in Jilin province. (Photo by China Photos / Getty Images)
The beauty of the body for the promotion of sports ...
Tattoos Full
Chinese youth adopted tattoos and piercings, like their Western counterparts. And in this sphere, like fashion, the latest trends are not an extravagant close!
Tattoos Olympic
Paint cans
Chinese women have belly paintings in a contest of beauty and body painting for pregnant women held in Haikou, southern China (Hainan) in October 2008.
cosmetic surgery?
signalitiques Chinese
All appear to be good opportunities to take the body of young Chinese model as a support "artistic" or promotional. Here are two artists of conceptual art that are demonstrating their talent at the fifth exhibition of automotive Hunan. Note the fineness of the implied message: a double meaning forbidden and dangerous misplaced!
Chinese confusing
Visitors to the auto show crowd Hunan to the new terminals signalitiques looking for a code of conduct.
Corps scruffy
Performance Art at the Contemporary Art Exhibition in Nanjing. The body of a naked woman, based on a light box is covered with innumerable black dots meant to represent the Braille scriptures.
Thinking Dashed on the blindness of contemporary art? It would help me ...
Corps dragon
A model with a scroll body painting (bodyart) entitled "Dragon". The work took more than 12 hours. Shanghai in October 2005. Newsphoto.
Art on edge
Facing the durcicement of censorship that affects pornography and nudity on the net chinese, lovers of female sensuality unbridled find themselves without complex behind the artistic values of body painting.
Pang Guohua fast creation
The model allows for a painted body exposure without shock the modesty. The work, moral umbrella that acts as a clever cover sex, can be tolerated by the Party. The pleasure of art or the art of pleasure ...
animal and floral themes are frequently covered in body paint. Here a work of Chinese artist bodyart Karen Yiu. The site Karen Yiu .
Although the Cultural Revolution broke many taboos and paved the way for a more liberal stance on sexuality, Chinese society is sometimes found a little lost, as could be customers of the restaurant facing the sassy waitress and daubed somewhat.
Chinese Confucian confused
... well, not all!
The blue lotus
Here is a small "sample" of local body art, that can still cross at the corner of the net chinese ...
nose (nose) of the dragon
Fish skin soft
Minimalist
Squirrels Naughty
hilly landscapes
Between the Pacific Coast and the Lower Rhine
The bird is done nest
Lifes alive
Tableau
the middle of karst landscapes of Guilin in southern China
The beautiful hills of Guilin
PAINT BODY IN ASIAN NEIGHBORS ...
The practice of body painting is well developed in China, one would think attending the same phenomenon in the Japanese neighbors with known taste for eroticism.
In fact, while in China the painting itself is usually treated with an aesthetic approach, Japan corporeal transformations are rather a manifestation of social order, belonging to a group - such as tattooing the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia - a ritual or a registered opposition in Punk, Gothic Lolitas and other Harajukus Japanese example.
Japanese Tattoo
More on the art of tattooing in Japan .
Free style
The Harajuku Girls in Japan adopt a style that blends gothic clothing, figurines ningyo and iconography of Hello Kitty or Disney in through hip-hop or punk. A beautiful melting pot!
This trend, and near the cosplay craze in Japan is known as Harajuku, referring to the station of Harajuku in Tokyo, the meeting place of Japanese youth and Temple of the hype.
More info on this strange fashion, which mixes aesthetic revolt, burlesque costume and makeup crazy in this photo gallery Flickr: Harajuku Girls: The New Geisha's . Source via the website Heaven.fr
Bodyart of Oswin Eder
Body painting has become an object of creating very popular and several international festivals are being spent.
Bodyart Martin Clark
Work of Korean Choi Young Cheo
The annual Festival of bodypainting opened recently in Asia where he settled in South Korea, another country very attracted to body art.
We will finish this series in all beauty with very original works of South Korean Kim Joon who has revived the genre, pushing further the relationship between aesthetics and entangled bodies monochromatic colors. Beautiful work ...
Kim Joon : duet monkey
Kim Joon :duet dragon
Kim Joon : red
Kim Joon : duet fire
Kim Joon : duet pig
Kim Joon: duet hidesign
Kim Joon Bodypaint
More photos on the personal website Kim Joon of .
For fans of bodyart and bodypainting I board this blog with hundreds of photos of bodypainting and body transformation: bodyartdefinition.blogspot .
